Monday, January 21, 2013

Today, as some of you might or might not know, has been declared the most depressing day of the year. Something about it being a Monday, and dreary, and all of the holiday bills coming due around this time.

Of course, if you are an Obamaholic, -or a Ravens or 49ers fan- today isn't so depressing for you at all. Now if you are a racist, on the other hand, you probably can't wait for the day to end.

Today isMLK Day and that Obama fellow just got sworn in for his second term to be your leader. (Loved the anthem Mrs. Jay-Z.) I hope the guns are locked away. It's enough to make any god- fearing racist want to put one of them to his head. Over at FOX NEWS they are beyond depressed. Imagine having to cover the inauguration of the guy who you have been trying to get rid of for the past four years.

It must be tough being a wingnut these days. Hang in there people. Four years is not such a long time in the big scheme of things.

Finally, one of the things that President Obama spoke about in his inauguration address today was gun control. And with that in mind, I want to touch bases on a case out in New Mexico that has not been getting enough news attention as far as I am concerned.

So there is this 15 year old boy who allegedly took an AR-15 assault rifle and slaughtered his entire family.

"Police described a “horrific” scene after they arrived at the New Mexico home where a teenage boy allegedly killed his two parents and three siblings late Saturday night.

The five family members were found in their rural home outside Albuquerque. Police identified the victims as Greg Griego, 51; Sarah Griego, 40; and their children Zephania Griego, 9; Jael Griego, 5; and Angelina Griego, 2.

Their alleged attacker was identified by police as another family member, 15-year-old Nehemiah Griego, the Associated Press reported.

The boy was arrested and charged with two counts of murder and three counts of child abuse resulting in death, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department. He has been placed in a juvenile detention center, according to police.

Police found multiple weapons, including an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle, near the scene of the shooting, according to the AP.

“The victims all had multiple gunshot wounds, and there appeared to be multiple weapons, including an assault-type weapon,” Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department deputy Aaron Williamson told Reuters.

“There’s no other way to say it, except that we have a horrific crime scene down there that we are working on it,” Sheriff Dan Houston said on Sunday.

While little was known about the alleged shooter, a picture began to emerge Monday of his father. Greg Griego, identified as a pastor at Calvary, a local church, was remembered as a caring family man.

“Greg loved his family, he loved his church, he loved God, and was very involved with and had love for people in prison,” Calvary executive director Brian Nixon told NBC affiliate KOB-TV. “He headed up our jail ministry, he had a passion for people and to help them.” [Source]

Apparently he loved his guns as well. I guess he didn't read the part in the book of Exodus that talked about his God being a jealous God.

In the spirit of MLK, it's time for President Obama to deliver a major policy speech on the eradication of poverty in America. He ought to tell us how the richest nation in the history of the world is going to confront the scourge of poverty.

In the spirit of MLK, President Obama should rethink the random use of his favorite weapon - the unmanned aerial vehicle, better known as "drones," which have killed too many innocent women and children.

In the spirit of MLK, President Obama should not continue to feel boxed in by his blackness, but feel liberated in a second term to find ways to push back on the most intractable issue in America -- racism.

The president wants to channel King so badly that he's decided to use Dr. King's Bible at the inauguration ceremony tomorrow.

Obama is a politician, and a pretty good one, but King was a prophet. And while I can appreciate the president's fascination with King's legacy of unarmed truth and unconditional love, I'm feeling some sort of way about King being used symbolically for public pomp and circumstance, but disregarded substantively when it comes to public policy.

How many times can the conservatives make hysterical prophesies that never happen and still be taken seriously? How long have we heard about blah helicopters and re-education camps and the government disarming everybody? Still nothing. I'm willing to make a bet with the wingnuts that in 20 years the constitution will still be the governing document in this country and Barack's blah panther army still won't have plantations full of white slaves. I for one am still waiting for my white slaves during B's second term but it might not happen.But back to the bet, I'll go Romney and say $10,000 but then again how many ignorant racist trolls can come up with that much money in 20 years?

“Greg loved his family, he loved his church, he loved God, and was very involved with and had love for people in prison,” Calvary executive director Brian Nixon told NBC affiliate KOB-TV. “He headed up our jail ministry, he had a passion for people and to help them.” [Source]

Field added, "Apparently he loved his guns as well. I guess he didn't read the part in the book of Exodus that talked about his God being a jealous God."

It's too bad that happened. However, my understanding that being a child of a minister can have dire psychological consequences about the way one thinks about one's parents and religion in general. For instance, the daughter of a minister can be quite promiscuous, and the son can have an aversion to God and religion. In some cases, he declares himself an atheist.

I went to see "Last Stand" this weekend and came away thinking I need to by a gun. Yet, I am still not sure.

I have repeatedly asked FN posters for their advice. That is should I or should I not buy a gun? However, I get no answer. In fact, I am not even acknowledged. Field, why haven't YOU or some of your FN friends offered some advice?

"Mr Field, I am surprised that you did not mention the First Lady's eye roll at Boehner during the Inaugural Luncheon"

I saw that. Dude was probably drinking too much again and said something inappropriate.

"For instance, the daughter of a minister can be quite promiscuous, and the son can have an aversion to God and religion. In some cases, he declares himself an atheist."

Not in this case. Never said I was an "atheist". I wouldn't be so dogmatic. Look up the difference between being an agnostic and being an atheist when you get a chance. When you get a chance. I wouldn't want to pull you away from those Here Comes Honey Boo Boo reruns.

"I have repeatedly asked FN posters for their advice. That is should I or should I not buy a gun? However, I get no answer"

We are afraid to tell you to get one because you might have some issues. Show us proof of your background check.

"I have repeatedly asked FN posters for their advice. That is should I or should I not buy a gun? However, I get no answer"

Field replied, "We are afraid to tell you to get one because you might have some issues. Show us proof of your background check."

8:14 PM-----------------------------Field why do you keep fucking with me? I am trying to make a conscious decision but you keep messing with me. And your regular FN ID's like PC and PilotX or even AB or Dr Nuwang haven't said shit.

I would have thought PilotX would have some very good advice, seeing how he lives in Chicago where guns are all over the place and our peeps are using them like no tomorrow.

"Mr Field, I am surprised that you did not mention the First Lady's eye roll at Boehner during the Inaugural Luncheon"

Field replied, "I saw that. Dude was probably drinking too much again and said something inappropriate."

Are you saying Boehner is an alcoholic? Field, that is a pretty low shot. Boehner is a Republican and they don't drink very much liquor. It's against their religion to drink to much. You don't much about Christians do you?

PilotX said..."I'm willing to make a bet with the wingnuts that in 20 years the constitution will still be the governing document in this country"...................

The Constitution is already not the governing document in this country. Obama does whatever he wants - fight a war without getting congressional approval, kill American citizens without trial, compel citizens to buy a product whether or not they want it, refuse to enforce laws he doesn't like, stonewall legitimate congressional inquiries, make illegal recess appointments, attack states for upholding federal law and usurp congressional authority by granting citizenship to millions who have come here illegally.

If the Constitution was still the governing document in this country, Obama would have been impeached and removed from office some time ago.

@Field: Did you notice how partisan the inaugural address was? The typical inaugural speaks in the broadest themes about the core of America, those things which are not generally disputed; this speech was more like a State of the Union, with a partisan political agenda and Designated Villains.

Throughout his address, the President maintained his voice in a near-shout. This was not an historic address, a reflection on a moment in history; it was an exhortation to political action, in contrast to the political reality of a divided Washington, in defiance of the profound economic challenges still facing the American people.

It was a declaration of political war on individual liberty.

Obama has always considered himself the Anti-Reagan -- he would not only undo the Reagan coalition and the Reagan era, but do what Reagan did but for the left, create a semi-permanent liberal majority.

Obama is on the way to accomplishing that, but for one thing: Reagan's presidency was a great success. Obama's is not. Success tends to attract fans; that's why people ask celebrities for autographs and read biographies of superstar athletes and innovators like Steve Jobs.

Obama has had many political successes, but he's had no non-political successes except for the assassination of Osama bin Ladin (and that of course was built on the earlier efforts of Bush, and was a longstanding bipartisan goal).

There is nothing he's done yet that a non-political person, or someone opposed to his politics, can point at and say "That's a good thing."

He won't seal any kind of deal until he manages that, and I don't think he will. The trajectory of socialism is failure. And yes, Obama is a socialist. And so history says he will fail.

"I have repeatedly asked FN posters for their advice. That is should I or should I not buy a gun? However, I get no answer"

We are afraid to tell you to get one because you might have some issues. Show us proof of your background check.

Wait background checks are being deemed illegal for Negroes because they might have a prison record and with so many being criminals this has a disparaging impact on Negroes - no one wants to hire them.

Also - Banks are being forced to lend to Negroes with bad credit even on welfare (here goes the housing bubble again)

So then will it be made illegal for a Negro to be refused a gun resulting from a background check? Domestic violence, felonies and all we know there will be a "disparaging impact" in this area.

Amazing Negroes screw up everything in their life and then demand society accepts them.

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Foxnews haters cried all day that The President did not 'reach out' to the wingnuts lol.

There's a study released by the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund that says we can save 2 trillion dollars over the next decade on health care costs by congress using their power to say health care cost don't up faster than the gross domestic product. Google it and check it out.

"Field: Did you notice how partisan the inaugural address was? The typical inaugural speaks in the broadest themes about the core of America, those things which are not generally disputed; this speech was more like a State of the Union, with a partisan political agenda and Designated Villains."

FOX News will be proud of you. You got the talking points down.Good wingnut.

Associate professor of journalism and mass communication at Morgan State University and author of I MiX What I Like: A MiXtape Manifesto, Ball said today: “Not even the Hollywood distortions of Lincoln and Django out-perform the political myths being planned for this week’s inauguration. One hundred and fifty years since the Emancipation Proclamation and 50 years after the March on Washington, Barack Obama will use both the bibles of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. as part of a ceremony that is as much about obscuring or preventing progressive change as were the real politics of Lincoln and those falsely ascribed to King. It is as doubtful that Lincoln meant by colonization of blacks back to Africa the eventual return of Africans to sit in this country’s highest offices as it is that King meant to fight for an equality that would allow black people the same right to perform drone strikes. Lincoln and King represent important dialectical, hostile and very unequal political opposites. Obama’s symbolic merging of the two in fact works to impose a false unity to what each represented and disrespectfully aligns King with a political tradition he was killed trying to eradicate.”

"Amazing Negroes screw up everything in their life and then demand society accepts them."

11:46 PM----------------------------------Since when has society accepted Negroes, I mean, N----rs? As for your acceptance I can do without. It's your racist attitude that tries to tear down my value and dignity as a human being--THAT is what I can't stand. And yes, I DO demand THAT, which you refuse to do because YOU are not so human yourself....Go fuck yourself.

Sad. I have never, that I remember anyway, seen such cruel criticism of a first lady's dress and hairstyle.

As all women the world over, she wanted a new do, a nice dress, and mind you not by a fancy european designer either, to attend her husbands activity. As all women are wont to do when attending a celebration of any kind!

And yet some of the cruelest, mocking comments I have ever heard have ensued!

How sad, that people can have such hatred in their hearts poisoning their lives is a truly sad thing.

Remember Chocolate City Ray Nagin, the incompetent, mentally troubled, crime-endorsing Democrat mayor who presided over the Katrina mess that the media managed to blame on Bush? He is back in the news:

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted Friday on charges that he used his office for personal gain, accepting payoffs, free trips and gratuities from contractors while the city was struggling to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. …

The federal indictment accuses Nagin of accepting more than $160,000 in bribes and truckloads of free granite for his family business in exchange for promoting the interests of a local businessman who secured millions of dollars in city contract work after the 2005 hurricane. The businessman, Frank Fradella, pleaded guilty in June to bribery conspiracy and securities-fraud charges and has been cooperating with federal authorities.

Nagin, 56, also is charged with accepting at least $60,000 in payoffs from another businessman, Rodney Williams, for his help in securing city contracts for architectural, engineering and management services work. Williams, who was president of Three Fold Consultants LLC, pleaded guilty Dec. 5 to a conspiracy charge.

The indictment also accuses Nagin of getting free private jet and limousine services to New York from an unidentified businessman. Nagin is accused of agreeing to wave tax penalties that the businessman owed to the city on a delinquent tax bill in 2006.

Maybe Nagin has foreshadowed our national future. See if this doesn’t remind you of someone:

Strong support from black voters helped Nagin win re-election in 2006 despite widespread criticism of his post-Katrina leadership. But the glacial pace of rebuilding, a surge in violent crime and the budding City Hall corruption investigation chipped away at Nagin’s popularity during his second term.

Nagin could not seek a third consecutive term because of term limits.

Replace Katrina with the continuing economic crisis, give Nagin goofy-looking ears, and you could have the story of the next several years.

field negro said... "Field: Did you notice how partisan the inaugural address was? The typical inaugural speaks in the broadest themes about the core of America, those things which are not generally disputed; this speech was more like a State of the Union, with a partisan political agenda and Designated Villains."

FOX News will be proud of you. You got the talking points down.Good wingnut.---------

While field negroes are busy high-fiving themselves over Obama's inaugural promises to spend more money the country doesn't have on progressive programs most people don't want, smarter commentators noted what was lacking in the speech.

Here's the AP: "If there was a way to reconcile such spending with demands to stabilize the nation's debt, he didn't mention it."

David Ignatius, after calling the speech "flat, partisan and pedestrian," noted: "If you were hoping that the president would set the stage for a grand bargain to restructure America’s entitlement programs and fiscal health for the 21st century, you wouldn’t have found much encouragement."

Even Politico found that there was no indication that Obama's claim four yours ago that he would make "hard choices" on entitlement reform would come true in a second term: "His inaugural address promised an ambitious progressive agenda — and laid bare Obama’s deeply conflicted relationship with entitlement reform."

"FOX News will be proud of you. You got the talking points down.Good wingnut."

Thank you comrade for using the official party line. When anyone tries to discuss the truth and it is unflattering to dear leader - simply spout the talking point FOX - FOX.

It's beautiful ; it itself is a talking point used on nearly every occasion. While you accuse others of using a talking point but get to completely ignore and dismiss reality with a shake of the head. Thereby never needing to engage in meaningful discussion; simply ignore reality and claim your blind partisanship is really someone else s'

And the real beauty of it is, it all emanated from dear leader who tried to excommunicate Fox for being the only non cheerleader network.

Beautiful. You have earned the gratitude of the party comrade. We will ensure there is an extra sheet of toilet paper in your monthly rations as reward.

Here are the thougts of a former Tiananmen Square activist in a speech given over the weekend:

The past Monday I decided to visit the Minuteman Park in Lexington and pay tribute to Captain John Parker and his fellow minutemen. A thought came to my mind, that the founding fathers of the United States and Chairman Mao had one thing in common: they all realized that guns are important political instruments. Their similarities, however, ended there:"Chairman Mao wrote: ‘Political power grows out of barrel of a gun’, and he dictated: ‘The party shall command the gun’. James Madison and his compatriots, however, believing that the power of the state is derived from the consent of the governed, ratified that ‘the right to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed’."

Obama and his fellow leftists ascribe to the idea that only those in power should have the power of the gun.

Sad. I have never, that I remember anyway, seen such cruel criticism of a first lady's dress and hairstyle.

As all women the world over, she wanted a new do, a nice dress, and mind you not by a fancy european designer either, to attend her husbands activity. As all women are wont to do when attending a celebration of any kind!

And yet some of the cruelest, mocking comments I have ever heard have ensued!

How sad, that people can have such hatred in their hearts poisoning their lives is a truly sad thing.

Lord have mercy. I'm sad

I have no empathy, I remember all of the lefties being ruthless to A Romney even making fun of her diseases because she was everything they envied. They ripped her for her looks, her clothes her words, her sickness.

@Anon: Well, I dunno, the only thing I remember anyone saying about A Romney was about the stay at home mom versus working moms issue, and I did hear some criticism about $1,000 dollar blouses she wore, but nothing that compares to the things of the nature that they say about the FlOTUS.

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